2015 Reading Challenge Recap

My 2015 Reading Challenge…Wow! I surpassed my expectations by reading 67 books this year. When I last wrote about my 2015 Reading Challenge, I challenged myself to read 52 books this year, one book each week. I set up my reading challenge in the 2015 Reading Challenge app on goodreads.com. I also used the prompts in Popsugar’s 2015 Reading Challenge.

I definitely went over my 52 books for the year, but not all of the books were from my Popsugar Reading Challenge list. At the beginning of this year, I joined a local book club. Several of the books I read this year were books selected for my book club, and all the remaining books are ones I just wanted to read or edited for my internships. Below is the completed reading list for my 2015 Reading Challenge.

Legend: ∗ Popsugar’s Reading Challenge List , † my book club’s list, ‡ for books I edited.

1. Our Iceberg Is Melting by John P. Kotter – Completed January 1, 2015 ∗
2. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin – Completed January 2, 2015 ∗
3. #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso – Completed January 18, 2015 ∗
4. The Fred Factor: How passion in you work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary by Mark Sanborn – Completed January 24, 2015 ∗
5. Killer Frost by Jennifer Estep – Completed February 12, 2015 ∗
6. March by Geraldine Brooks – Completed March 14, 2015 ∗†
7. Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell – Completed March 15, 2015 ∗†
8. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell – Completed March 17, 2015 ∗
9. By Royal Command by Mary Hooper – Completed March 21, 2015 ∗
10. The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell – Completed March 24, 2015 ∗
11. The Turncoat by Donna Thorland – Completed April 7, 2015
12. My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire by Michelle Goodman – Completed April 30, 2015
13. How to Become a Freelance Editor: Start a New Career in Less Than a Year by Dustin Schwanger – Completed May 6, 2015
14. Night by Elie Wiesel – Completed May 18, 2015 ∗
15. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg – Completed May 19, 2015
16. Inspector of the Dead by David Morrell – Completed May 31, 2015
17. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey – Completed June 13, 2015 ∗
18. The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl – Completed June 13, 2015
19. The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady by Elizabeth Stuckey-French – Completed June 22, 2015 †
20. Dracula by Bram Stoker – Completed June 23, 2015 ∗
21. The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau – Completed June 27, 2015
22. Bossypants by Tina Fey – Completed July 6, 2015 ∗
23. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – Complete July 11, 2015 ∗
24. How to Start a Home-based Editorial Services Business by Barbara Fuller – Completed July 11, 2015
25. Side Hustle Blueprint: How to make an extra $1000 in 30 days without leaving your day job! By Lise Cartwright – Completed July 11, 2015
26. More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell – Completed July 12, 2015
27. Babayaga by Toby Barlow – Completed July 19, 2015 †
28. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – Completed July 25, 2015 ∗
29. The Vision by Heather Graham – Completed July 27, 2015 ∗
30. The Betrayed by Heather Graham – completed July 29, 2015 ∗
31. The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss – Completed July 29, 2015
32. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller – Completed July 31, 2015 †
33. Death Callers by Raven Hudgins – Completed August 5, 2015 ‡
34. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell – Completed August 23, 2015 ∗
35. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – Completed August 26, 2015
36. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy – Completed August 27, 2015 ∗
37. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee – Completed August 28, 2015 ∗
38. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned by Lena Dunham – Completed August 29, 2015 ∗
39. The Elements of Editing by Arthur Plotnik – Completed September 1, 2015 ∗
40. Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James – Completed September 2, 2015 ∗
41. Get Motivated!: Overcome Any Obstacle, Achieve Any Goal, and Accelerate  Your Success with Motivational DNA by Tamara Lowe – Completed September 12, 2015 ∗
42. The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey – Completed September 28, 2015
43. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind: How to Be Seen and Heard in the Overcrowded Marketplace by Al Ries – completed October 5, 2015 ∗
44. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger – Completed October 6, 2015 ∗
45. Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community by Joy Deangdeelert Cho – Completed October 6, 2015
46. Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes – Completed October 7, 2015 ∗
47. Thornfield Hall by Emma Tennant – Completed October 14, 2015 ∗
48. The Evidence of Love by Nancy Adams – Completed October 15, 2015 †
49. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes – Completed October 28, 2015
50. McGraw-Hill’s Proofreading Handbook by Laura Killen Anderson – Completed November 1, 2015 ∗
51. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury – Completed November 5, 2015 ∗
52. The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas – Completed November 6, 2015 ∗
53. The Vactioners by Emma Straub – Completed November 8, 2015 ∗
54. 1984 by George Orwell – November 9, 2015 ∗
55. The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger – Completed November 11, 2015 ∗
56. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell – Completed November 11, 2015 ∗
57. Song of the Nibelungs by Anonymous – Completed November 12, 2015 ∗
58. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare – Completed November 12, 2015 ∗
59. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis – Completed November 12, 2015 ∗
60. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White – Completed November 18, 2015 ∗
61. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien – Completed November 18, 2015 ∗
62. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien – Completed November 19, 2015 ∗
63. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien – Completed November 22, 2015 ∗
64. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore – Completed November 22, 2015 ∗
65. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri – Completed November 24, 2015 ∗
66. Eragon by Christopher Paolini – Completed December 30, 2015 ∗
67. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Illustrated version) by J.K. Rowling – Completed December 31, 2015

What do you think of my reading list? I have all types of genres thrown in there for this year. Leave a comment below.

Please check back tomorrow for my 2016 Reading Challenge and list of books.